Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic conveyed at today's meeting of the foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group and the Western Balkans, concern and outrage over the attack by Pristina police security forces and special units on the north of Kosovo.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that his country's army and police are fully combat-ready to protect Serbs in northern Kosovo in the event of any violence against them by Kosovo's forces.

President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic said today that in the operation of a special unit of the National Liberation Army, former ROSU and FIT, 23 persons of Serb and Bosniak ethnicity have been arrested in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, mostly members of the Kosovo police.

Fugitive former Kosovo Liberation Army unit commander Remzi Shala, known during wartime as 'The Red Apple', appeared in court in Prizren on Friday after being arrested, but denied he was trying to evade justice.

Shala is a suspect in the kidnapping in 1998 of an ethnic Albanian man who was subsequently killed, and was initially supposed to appear in court in Prizren on January 9.